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The Country Doctor: Captivating tales from a young GP's case notes Kindle Edition

by Jean McConnell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
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"Captivating tales from a young GP's case notes."

Young doctor Linda Ford swaps a busy London teaching hospital for a six month post at a small West Country General Practice. She soon discovers that countryside life is far from uneventful.

Dr John Cooper, the senior doctor, warns Linda not to get emotionally involved in her cases. But Linda can't help taking a personal interest in her patients, particularly when their problems seem to be more than medical. And as this is the late 1970s, Linda also faces some misgivings about a female doctor. Especially a young and pretty one.

Linda clashes over medical matters with Dr Peter Cooper, the older doctor's son. But there is an undeniable attraction too. Where will it lead? And as Linda is keeping Peter's place until he joins the practice as his father's partner, what will her future hold?

This slice of rural life uncovers the dramas, family secrets and dilemmas which confront patients young and old. Their stories are in turn intriguing, poignant, and heart-warming.

The Country Doctor was previously published in serialised form as Linda Ford, Locum, and in Large Print as The Substitute Doctor.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IXVMROU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corazon Books (Doctors and Nurses) (March 10, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 10, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1125 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 322 ratings

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Jean McConnell

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Jean McConnell was a prolific writer of plays, television and radio scripts, and short stories. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines worldwide. For television she has written for the BBC (including the popular BBC medical drama Dr Finlay's Casebook), Granada and channels in the USA and Europe. Jean's radio plays have been heard on the BBC and in Germany and Zambia. Her plays have been performed in theatres around the UK and internationally. She was a member of the Crime Writers' Association and a Vice President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.

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3.8 out of 5 stars
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Harry Keen
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016
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A really good read, just a little predictable in places.
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Book Club Joan
5.0 out of 5 stars A feel-good read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2014
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I loved this book. I like the way each chapter relates a complete episode in the young locum doctor's first job. Dr Cooper senior, Linda's boss, reminds me of the doctor who was our family's GP for over 30 years. The book also reminds me of the television series Doc Martin, although Dr Cooper has a much gentler 'bedside manner'! Each patient's story is interesting and very different and the characters are well drawn. Linda is a likeable character and the romantic thread running through the book is nicely under-played. Definitely a feel-good read, whether on holiday or for a relaxing evening at home.
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Kindle Customer lorna crole.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on February 21, 2016
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pretty good story
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MR MICHAEL GUILAS
4.0 out of 5 stars well connected country GP
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2014
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Times have changed and the new country doctor (GP) is now a young, self-confident and electronically connected woman. The emotional thread is provided by the closeness to the GP principal who runs this surgery, being lodged at his place, and having to work and to party with his weekly visiting son, himself a doctor. Numerous snapshots of the countryside life with compared expectations of the patients and of the doctors, make the substance of the book. Lessons are learned, heart sinks are mended. It reads easily at bedtime, there is a minimum of casualties and bodies, but goring is avoided, and high spirit is maintained all the way through.
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Lee
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on February 20, 2016
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Very interesting and well written
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colleen m clayden
3.0 out of 5 stars Expected more from reading the blurb.
Reviewed in Australia on June 18, 2017
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Captivating tales from a young GP's case notes is very misleading. This really is just a love story. Overall I found it disappointing and predictable.
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